Here are some ideas of sentence starters for sections of your grant. These are only a few ideas. You can probably think of even better ones!

  • Integrate technology into instructiongrant-writing-tips.jpg
  • Develop critical thinking skills
  • Employs project-based learning
  • Develop projects in real world settings
  • Encourages life-long learning
  • Encourages creative problem-solving
  • Helps students to be college and career ready
  • Addresses these standards/objectives in my core
  • Will help to provide data to improve student improvement
  • How you will monitor student improvement
  • Shows innovation because. . .
  • Helps student achieve a 3 (or 4) Depth of Knowledge Level by
  • Will help improve my students’ SLOs by. . .
  • Our school CSIP goal is and it helps to achieve the goal by. . .
  • Provides student feedback by. . .
  • Using technology provides motivation
  • Increases student engagement and opportunities to respond
  • Helps with differentiation/remediation
  • Helps individualize learning
  • Specific examples of projects using what you are getting with the grant
  • Shows interdisciplinary connections by. . .
  • Encourages collaborative learning
  • Helps students learn to edit, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, create (any of these)
  • Stimulate students intellectually/creativity
  • Helps increase (writing skills, reading comprehension, understanding of graphs, etc.)


Timeline: Some kind of display or presentation where the school community is involved where students can highlight work they have done with the materials and you can promote CEF as the providers of funds.